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AP - Two intensive-care patients contracted HIV after receiving blood transfusions at public hospitals in the Argentine province of Cordoba, a newspaper reported Friday.

AP - Federal regulators on Friday cleared the first treatment approved in the United States for Huntington’s, a rare inherited disease that causes uncontrolled movements, deterioration of mental abilities and, ultimately, death.

AP - Despite ongoing safety concerns from parents, consumer groups and politicians, a chemical used in baby bottles, canned food and other items is not dangerous, federal regulators said Friday.

AP - Top doctors at the helm of one of the nation’s most influential medical journals are giving the Supreme Court some unsolicited legal advice about a major case.

Reuters - Children with the allergic skin
condition eczema are at increased risk of developing asthma
well into adulthood, according to a decades-long study.

AP - The nationwide salmonella outbreak is finally winding down but federal health officials can’t yet say how the few tainted Mexican peppers they’ve found could explain such widespread illness.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Aug. 15 (HealthDay News) — Older patients and surgeons
don’t communicate effectively when discussing surgical treatment options,
even though the decision to have surgery can be particularly difficult and
confusing for seniors, says an Indiana University School of Medicine
study.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Aug. 15 (HealthDay News) — Statins reduce the perils
facing obese people after they have the bypass surgery that restores blood
flow to an endangered heart, a study finds.

August 12 — Earlier onset, longer duration and greater severity of diabetes may increase the risk for mild cognitive impairment, according to Mayo Clinic researchers.
Previous research identified a link between mild cognitive impairment and diabetes. Poor blood glucose control over a long period of time may lead to a loss of brain cells, […]

August 7 — A widely used test to monitor blood sugar levels in people with diabetes could help identify millions of people with undetected diabetes, according to a consensus statement released by a team of experts.
The hemoglobin A1c test shows how much glucose red blood cells have been exposed to in the previous […]

August 5 — Traditional laser therapy is more effective than the recent trend of using steroid injections to treat diabetics with swelling in their eyes, a new study finds.
The multi-center trial, published in the online edition of Ophthalmology, also noted that laser therapy has far few side effects than corticosteroids in trying to preserve […]

August 4 — People who drink too much have increased odds of developing metabolic syndrome, a series of risk factors and conditions that are strongly related to cardiovascular disease, a new study says.
The study, expected to be published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, defines excess drinking as more than two drinks […]

August 1 — Women who 32 years ago lived in the area of a major dioxin spill in Italy have been six times more likely to give birth to babies with altered thyroid function than other women, a new study reports.
The study, published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, looks at the aftereffect […]

July 30 — Women who develop diabetes before they become pregnant are three to four times more likely than non-diabetic women to have a baby with at least one birth defect, says a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.
This is the first study to identify the wide range of birth defects — such […]

AFP - Beijing’s health authorities distributed 400,000 free condoms in over 400 hotels in the Olympic city in a bid to raise awareness of safe sex and AIDS prevention, state media reported on Friday.